| Security Considerations for a Distributed Location Service (1998) | |||||||||||||||
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| Mobile computing, wireless communications, and cheap location tracking and navigation systems have made location data a valuable and available commodity for many different kinds of computing applications. However, there are fears that this new wealth of personal location information will lead to new security risks, to the invasion of the privacy of people and organisations. In this paper, we discuss security requirements faced by a location service in different organisational contexts. We outline different solutions which are based on traditional approaches to mandatory and discretionary security, but lead to necessary generalisations of those schemes. 1 Introduction Security of information systems are of great concern to individuals and organisations, though for different reasons. Commercial organisations are mostly interested in the integrity of their data. The military worries more about secrecy (see [2] for a discussion). Individuals are concerned about privacy, which is broadly d... | |||||||||||||||
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